The Invention of Wings
Sue Monk Kidd • 2014
Devastation Rating
historical injustice survival friendship
Our Take
Two women — one enslaved, one her owner — narrate alternating chapters across thirty years of antebellum South Carolina. Kidd refuses easy absolution for Sarah Grimké and the novel is better for it. Handful's voice is the one that endures. Her dreams of flight over a world that will not let her stand upright.
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